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F. B. Spaulding reports it from Lancaster, in the Connecticut 

 valley. Dr. Walter Faxon has found it also breeding at F'ranco- 

 nia. 



Dates : May 3 to September 17. 



202. Vireo flavifrons Vieill. YELLOW-THROATED 



VlREO. 



An uncommon summer resident in the Transition valleys of 

 the lower part of the state. At Hollis, Dr. W. H. Fox writes 

 that it is common in summer, and it also occurs regularly on 

 the coast in small numbers. About Manchester it is said to be 

 common, and usually found about towns. Farther north in cen- 

 tral New Hampshire it becomes rarer ; at Bridgewater, Mr. F. 

 H. Allen ('89) has observed it, and Mrs. E. E. Webster writes 

 me of one seen at Franklin Falls in May, 1899, while Mr. C. F. 

 Goodhue notes it as breeding about Webster. I have no rec- 

 ord of it north of Lake Winnepesaukee in the central part of 

 the state, where, however, it may be of casual occurrence. Mr. 

 Bradford Torrey (:oo, p. 638) records a single bird singing 

 on June 3, 1899, in a sugar maple grove at Franconia, which is 

 the first time, in all his observations in that region, that he has 

 seen the bird there. This straggler may have reached Franco- 

 nia by way of the Pemigewasset valley, but more probably by 

 the Connecticut basin, where the bird is a regular summer res- 

 ident as far up at least as the vicinity of Hanover, and according 

 to Mr. R. H. Howe, Junior, (:O2, p. 19) it has even been re- 

 corded from St. Johnsbury, Vt., on a northern tributary of the 

 Connecticut. 



Dates : May 8 to September. 



203. Vireo solitarius (Wils.). BLUE-HEADED VIREO. 

 An uncommon, though generally distributed summer resident, 



throughout the sub-Canadian areas of the state. On our ex- 

 treme southeast, Dr. W. H. Fox finds it a rare breeding bird at 

 Hollis, but on the higher land farther west, about Mt. Monad- 

 nock, and northward along the eastern rim of the Connecticut 

 valley and throughout the mixed woods of the central and north- 

 ern parts of the state it is fairly common, nesting up to about 



